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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. The organizational form of a literary work.






2. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






3. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






4. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






5. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.






6. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






7. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






8. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






9. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






10. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.






11. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






12. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






13. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






14. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






15. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






16. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






17. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






18. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.






19. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






20. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






21. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






22. A short saying with a moral.






23. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.






24. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.






25. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.






26. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






27. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.






28. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






29. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






30. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.






31. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






32. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.






33. The selection of words in a literary work.






34. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






35. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






36. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






37. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






38. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






39. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






40. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.






41. The conversation of characters in a literary work.






42. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.






43. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.






44. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






45. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






46. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.






47. A three-line stanza.






48. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.






49. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






50. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.